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Asked: 2026-05-23T17:16:13+00:00

I load a binary image in OpenCV using cvLoadImage as follows: IplImage* myImg=cvLoadImage(<ImagePath> ,-1);

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I load a binary image in OpenCV using cvLoadImage as follows:

IplImage* myImg=cvLoadImage(<ImagePath> ,-1); //-1 so that it is read as it is.

When I check myImg->width and myImg->widthStep, I was surprised to find that both of them have slightly different values. Then I went back to look at other images in the dataset, and found that for most cases, the two values were equal, however for some sizeable number of images, the two differed by a value of 1 or 2 mostly.

I though that only for colored images when the number of channels are more than 1, the two values are different, otherwise they are same. Am I wrong? Has anyone noticed this strange behavior before?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Apparently if the width is not a multiple of 4 it gets padded up to a multiple of 4, for performance and alignment reasons. So if width is e.g. 255 then widthStep would be 256.

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